Awarded Grants

Create Native assets by supporting scholarship opportunities for Native American students in Colorado.

This project will increase local access to fresh, healthy foods, including traditional Swinomish foods by creating and retaining Swinomish food programming and markets. It will utilize and leverage existing social and natural assets for education, marketing and outreach of these foods and associated physical and cultural health benefits.

This project utilizes the existing relationship between the Blackfeet Tribe, ARMP, the FDPIR, and FAST Blackfeet to create the Blackfeet Community Food Resource Center, enhancing control over our local food economy and creating centralized food production/distribution. It leverages food insecurity data collected on FAST Blackfeet CFSA by increasing food access.

The project will increase traditional and healthy food access in the community by creating a healthy foods hub serving and distributing healthy and traditional foods. It leverages data collected via our community food sovereignty assessment. It will retain indigenous food knowledge, increase health and help us increase our lifespan.

This project will create a vessel for local gardeners to deliver their produce to the store which would help increase the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables leveraging the findings of the food sovereignty assessment which called for more availability of such.

Conference sponsorship for 16th Annual Native Hawaiian Convention

Native Giving Distribution

This project is aimed at increasing access to Taos Pueblo children and families of locally produced and healthy foods/produce and value added goods.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) increase the number of informed Navajo Nation citizens regarding Elimination of Sales Tax on Healthy Food law; 2) partner with Navajo Nation retail businesses to promote healthy eating, purchasing, and #1; 3) leverage/expand our grassroots advocacy efforts to continue to further support these activities.

Native Giving Distribution